The mullahs’ regime is taking ever tougher measures to quell the protests in Iran.
On Monday, the regime publicly hanged Majidreza Rahnavard in Mashad. He is the second protester the mullahs have executed.
Rahnavard is said to have stabbed two members of the notorious paramilitary Basij militia during the November protests. The militia is responsible for using violence to suppress the protests. Its members beat and kill countless Iranians.
The court had accused Rahnavard of “waging war against God” and sentenced him to death under Islamic Sharia law. He didn’t have a fair trial. He came to the hearing without a lawyer, but with multiple injuries. The regime’s henchmen had tortured him in detention.
The rap musician was already last Thursday Mohsen Shekari (23) hanged. He is said to have attacked a Basij member with a gun, causing terror and blocking a road. His execution was sharply condemned at home and abroad.
According to media reports, at least 25 demonstrators are on the Iranian judiciary’s death list, including Ali Moazami and the three rappers Toomaj Salehi, Saman Yasin and Behrad Ali Konari.
They too could be executed at any time!
Rapper Mohsen Shekari (23) was executed on Thursday
Amnesty International estimates that at least 28 others – including three 17-year-olds – are next on the death row for their involvement in the demonstrations. A total of eleven people could be executed at any time according to judges’ decisions.
Human rights activists estimate that at least 470 demonstrators have been killed and more than 18,000 arrested since mid-September.
The mullahs’ judiciary has announced a tough course in the face of the protests. In parliament, too, members of parliament called for deterrent sentences, including the death penalty, for the thousands of detained protesters. A massacre is imminent.
(nko/afp/dpa)